class.getClassLoader().getResource REFUSES to find .svg file

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1

This is a real headscratcher for me. I cannot for the life of me get the class loader to find a .svg resource. I can change the extension to absolutely anything else (e.g. right now I have made them .svh files) and it gives me a valid URL, but I change them back to .svg and I only ever get null. WHAT THE HELL!!



Somebody please save me here.



// This NEVER works
URL url = SVGUtils.class.getClassLoader().getResource("com/acarter/applicationx/data/xml/checkbox_0.svg");

// So I rename the file extension to anything else (e.g. *.svz) and I get a valid URL
URL url = SVGUtils.class.getClassLoader().getResource("com/acarter/applicationx/data/xml/checkbox_0.svz");



Source layout is like this...

src
|- com.acarter.applicationx.data.xml
|    |- checkbox_0.svg
|    |- checkbox_1.svg
|
|- com.acater.applicationx.util
      |- SVGUtils.java
2

never had that issue… is it possible it is your IDE fooling with you?

3

right, like if you use eclipse, make sure the resource is copied over to the bin dir etc…

4
MrCoder said:

right, like if you use eclipse, make sure the resource is copied over to the bin dir etc...

Thats exactly the problem! Eclipse is not copying the *.svg files to the bin directory but I can't seem to fix it either. I even tried adding a specific build path inclusion for only svg files, an it still ignored them. I wonder if this is a Eclipe Ganymede bug or something, I've never had these kind of problems before (I also wasn't woking with svg's before Ganymede). And its specific to the extension, weird.
5

I finally found it. Thanks for the pointers guys.



Project Properties

  Java Compiler

    Building

      Workspace Settings

        Output Folder

          Filtered Resources    <- It was hiding deep in this list  :x


6

Meh, hate those kind of time sinks…  Glad you found it. :slight_smile: